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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reaffirm
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
reaffirm/restate/reiterate a commitment (=give a promise again)
▪ They reaffirmed their commitment to abandon nuclear power.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
commitment
▪ Teachers reaffirm their commitment to their pupils and schools.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But those are ceremonial events in which citizens reaffirm their surrender of sovereignty and their carelessness of their personal autonomy.
▪ In this way, we lost any realistic chance to reaffirm the essential truth of John Prescott's commitment.
▪ It is that premise which we reaffirm today.
▪ Moreover, religious and patriotic works fulfilled an important role in reaffirming traditional beliefs.
▪ The participating States reaffirm that freedom of expression is a human right and a basic component of a democratic society.
▪ The woman-church movement is one expression of this impulse to reaffirm the sacrality of female distinctiveness.
▪ We reaffirmed that programmatic view in 1963 and continue to reaffirm it today.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reaffirm

Reaffirm \Re`af*firm"\ (r[=e]`[a^]f*f[~e]rm"), v. t. To affirm again.

Wiktionary
reaffirm

vb. 1 To affirm again. 2 To bolster or support.

WordNet
reaffirm

v. affirm once again; "He reaffirmed his faith in the church"

Usage examples of "reaffirm".

Good reaffirmed her innocence, tried to shift the blame first to both of the other accused women, and then specifically claimed that it was Sarah Osborne who pinched and afflicted the children.

It was big, that feeling, and it had been the thing that had broken through his barriers back there, when Cymry reaffirmed her bond with him.

We condemned the Indian nuclear tests, reaffirmed our support for the Nuclear Nonproliferation and Comprehensive Test Ban treaties, and said we wanted a global treaty to stop the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons.

For the most part, it contained rings, some plain, others ornamented with enamel or engraving, a few heavy cabochons and more seals that must have been worn for generations before crossing the ocean in hopes of reaffirming their ownership.

Even the new religions which were born from time to time--always at epochs when the mutual-aid principle was falling into decay in the theocracies and despotic States of the East, or at the decline of the Roman Empire--even the new religions have only reaffirmed that same principle.

As residentguardian angel of all NSA computer systems, Jabba marched fromdepartment to department, tweaking, soldering, and reaffirming hiscredo that prevention was the best medicine.

NSA computer systems, Jabba marched from department to department, tweaking, soldering, and reaffirming his credo that prevention was the best medicine.

As a rare and sacramental rite, it was safe and necessary, helping the Keepers reaffirm their common humanity, reaffirming the close bond of the old Tower circles, the closest bond known, closer than kin, closer than sexual desire.

They stood triumphant in the field of flowers, reaffirming life out of ugliness.

And when he or she reaches maturity--at thirteen or twelve, respectively--the child reaffirms his willingness to be Jewish.

Everywhere across the torn kingdom the claimants to the throne were mustering their vassals and reaffirming their alliances.

How many, like him, have thought they were preaching a new gospel, when they were only reaffirming the principles which underlie the Magna Charta of humanity, and are common to the noblest utterances of all the nobler creeds!

Far from agreeing to Henry's terms, the Scots became more bitter and tenacious, refusing to abide by the treaties with the English and reaffirming their ties to France.

Accompanying the communication was a separate message from Sardaukar Commander Cando Garon, the diligent son of the Supreme Bashar, reaffirming everything Ajidica had said.

Soviet Moslems had the chance to mingle with their co-religionists from every corner of the world, and to reaffirm their sense of identity in Islam.